Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] appropriate [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Put forward the idea that " answers " are like hypotheses in science which have to be tested and tried out and replaced by better ones if necessary , but the testing has to be appropriate to the subject-matter .
2 It 's clear that behaviour style needs to be appropriate to assertiveness .
3 ‘ Finance needs to be appropriate to the needs of a business .
4 Such a grammar needs to be appropriate to the audience that is to use it , its content needs to be appropriate to the culture of the people whose language is to be learnt , and it needs to progress smoothly from one topic to another .
5 Such a grammar needs to be appropriate to the audience that is to use it , its content needs to be appropriate to the culture of the people whose language is to be learnt , and it needs to progress smoothly from one topic to another .
6 The automatic recognition of handwriting is necessary as a natural mode of communication with computers , and appears to be appropriate for a number of applications .
7 Feminists have noted that it always seems to be appropriate for men to treat women as if they were intimates or subordinates .
8 The primary prevention of neural tube defects by periconceptional multivitamin or folic acid supplementation seems to be appropriate for the reduction of both occurrence and recurrence .
9 Three Acts passed that year put into implicit political terms the principle underlying the mid-sixties statements of ‘ public ’ androgyny : ‘ Excessively polarised personality types thrive in a culture that demands the repression of certain natural tendencies while people are developing the so-called ‘ masculine ’ and so-called ‘ feminine ’ traits which society considers to be appropriate for each sex . ’
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